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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Offspring of Asian parents here. Thirty years ago, the ivies were a status symbol in my parents’ immigrant crowd, a sign that they had “made it”. Then some of us (gasp) started going to liberal arts colleges. Now the parents in that crowd are in their 80’s and are less judgmental about where their grandchildren go to college- because they’ve had a generation to see that an Ivy or T-10 isn’t the only “golden ticket” out there. [/quote] I think it's more complicated than than. A lot of it was insecurity. A lot of it was grasping for something to justify the painful sacrifices needed to give you academic opportunities. The problem is that these days we have much coarse filters that allow more subjectivity into the equation with much higher exclusivity/selectivity combined with a built in bias against the over represented minorities. [/quote]
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